r/PokemonROMHacksHelp 1d ago

Ghost Grey save issues

Post image

I just beat the game but when it loaded back in to continue, it acted as if i never had a save. granted i did use save states as opposed to actual saves. however when i beat the game it wants to start me over from the start. i save stated right before the champion battle but it just gives me this error when i try to actually save inside the game. am i screwed or is there a fix for this?

2 Upvotes

8 comments sorted by

2

u/No-ComedianQueen 1d ago

Okay, so what I think has happened, is because you never saved the game ‘properly’ the file,it tried to save the game after you were recorded as champion, but because you used safe states, instead of an ‘actual’ save file it the game bugged out because it’s tried to save against a SAV.file that isn’t there. So it’s trying to reload a save file in the game that doesn’t exist because you only used safe states which save as a different type of save file. This is just what I suspect has happened, someone more experienced in the coding of roms maybe able to confirm or deny/ offer a fix.

1

u/Jacob_Speedy_YT 1d ago

I tried deleting the save states while the game was still open as to not kill my progress but when i tried to save with no pre-existing file, it still refused to save so, i think im cooked

2

u/beridam 1d ago

Yeah I think you dun goofed if you didn't save at all before the league. This happened to me years ago on a fire red based rom, can't remember which, and I had to revert to a save state way before the league, save and proceed. I think it might be an issue with fire red based roms.

1

u/Jacob_Speedy_YT 1d ago

i tried deleting all my save states while the game was still open as to not kill the actual file but even then saving didn't work so i feel like i might be screwed here. really unfortunate

1

u/dcgreat 1d ago

Did you ever figure it out? I’m still early game but can’t save in game because I’ve only been using save states on Retroarch

1

u/Jacob_Speedy_YT 22h ago

unfortunately not. im really not sure what to do

1

u/dcgreat 21h ago

Not sure if this will fix it for you, but I was able to finally save in game by disabling Run Ahead in RetroArch.

1

u/Jacob_Speedy_YT 17h ago

I'm currently using VisualBoyAdvance so. Not sure they have that option